Democracy
Disadvantaged? Rearmament and Industrial Reorganisation in Britain in the 1930s

Neil
Forbes. Department of International Studies and Social Science, Coventry University, UK

“It
Would Be Embarrassing From an Administrative Standpoint If Their Services Were Retained
After the War, as They Could Not Be Fully Interchangeable With Men”: The
“Indispensible” Position of Women Post Office Workers in Britain, 1939-1950

Mark
Crowley, Wuhan University, China

Panel
2B3

Room:
Legislative B

Oil
on Troubled Waters: Energy, Business, and the Economy

Chair:
Laurence Malone, Department of Economics, Hartwick College

Rocky
Seas: The Dynamics of the Transition From Whale Oil to Petroleum

Brooks
Kaiser, Department of Economics, Gettysburg College

Seeing
the Industry Through a Glass Darkly: The Self Destruction of British
Shipbuilding, 1960-1980

Self-Sufficient
Energy Policy and International Monetary Relations: The US and the West
European Countries’ Search for Alternatives to Oil Between the Downfall of
Bretton Woods and the New Floating Regime

Simone
Selva, Harvard University

11:45
A.M. - 12:45 P.M.

Lunch
Break

Session
3: 12:45 - 2:15 P.M.

Panel
3A3

Room:
Legislative A

20th
Century Banks: Episodes and Developments in the USA, Britain, and Portugal

Chair:
Eline Poelmans, Faculty of Economics and Management, Hogeschool-Universiteit
Brussel and Faculty of Business and Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium